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There are confrontations with 1930s left-wing intellectuals and de facto existentialists of the wartime '40s. There is Jed's marriage to an unnervingly placid girl from North Dakota who dies young of cancer. The longest and best-furnished setting of the novel is Nashville, Tenn., during the postwar years. There Tewksbury teaches at a university, bends elbows with the horsy set and conducts the great love affair of his life. Significantly, it is with a girl from his own home town, now married to a rich sculptor. In Rozelle Hardcastle, Warren has forged a considerable Southern heroine...
This is the Alentejo,* a sprawling province of gently rolling hills dotted with olive, cork and eucalyptus trees and punctuated by whitewashed villages, set between the bustling capital of Lisbon, the Spanish border and the Algarve seacoast. Despite its Old World customs and deceptively placid appearance, the region has changed drastically over the past two years. The Alentejo was once a feudal preserve of absentee landlords, poor tenant farmers who worked for as little as $2 a day, vast private hunting estates, and wasted land whose inhabitants often went hungry. Now it is a Communist stronghold...
Anton will head for Kentucky and Cleveland, Ohio for a medical school interview and a visit to his grandmother respectively. Then he'll come back east to attend Harvard ski camp at Lake Placid, N.Y. After five "crazy" days skiing with the 18 men and women attending the camp, and five "rowdy" nights sampling Lake Placid's few bars, Anton says he'll be ready for the next stop on his schedule, a visit with his family in Southern California.1
...reluctance to leave the center of power is perhaps most clearly seen in the refusal of one of Gerald Ford's oldest friends and closest aides to do so. After only two years in the capital, White House Counsel Philip Buchen finds it impossible to return to the placid life of his (and Ford's) old home town of Grand Rapids. "It's awfully hard to go home again after living here," says Buchen. "This is a very supercharged atmosphere. When you go back after having a taste of this life and of the challenges...
...Plains, Ga., a normally placid farming community of 683 citizens, there would never be another day like this one: Election Day, 1976-family reunion and carnival and the world's front page all rolled into one. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela was in Plains for the occasion and sent this report...